Pierre; or The Ambiguities
by Herman Melville
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Contents
- Book I. Pierre Just Emerging from His Teens
- Book II. Love, Delight, and Alarm
- Book III. The Presentiment and the Verification
- Book IV. Retrospective
- Book V. Misgivings and Preparations
- Book VI. Isabel, and the First Part of the Story of Isabel
- Book VII. Intermediate Between Pierre’s Two Interviews with Isabel at the Farm-House
- Book VIII. The Second Interview at the Farm-House, and the Second Part of the Story of Isabel. Their Immediate Impulsive Effect Upon Pierre
- Book IX. More Light, and the Gloom of That Light. More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom
- Book X. The Unprecedented Final Resolution of Pierre
- Book XI. He Crosses the Rubicon
- Book XII. Isabel: Mrs. Glendinning: The Portrait: And Lucy
- Book XIII. They Depart the Meadows
- Book XIV. The Journey and the Pamphlet
- Book XV. The Cousins
- Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City
- Book XVII. Young America in Literature
- Book XVIII. Pierre, as a Juvenile Author, Reconsidered
- Book XIX. The Church of the Apostles
- Book XX. Charlie Millthorpe
- Book XXI. Pierre Immaturely Attempts a Mature Work. Tidings from the Meadows. Plinlimmon
- Book XXII. The Flower-Curtain Lifted from Before a Tropical Author, with Some Remarks on the Transcendental Flesh-Brush Philosophy
- Book XXIII. A Letter for Pierre. Isabel. Arrival of Lucy’s Easel and Trunks at the Apostles’
- Book XXIV. Lucy at the Apostles
- Book XXV. Lucy, Isabel, and Pierre. Pierre at His Book. Enceladus
- Book XXVI. A Walk: A Foreign Portrait: A Sail: And the End